A few months ago, for my chamba, I was asked to take a strengths assessment developed by the grandfather of positive psychology, Don Clifton. The assessment is designed to rank your top strengths out of 34 possible strengths, helping you understand what you naturally do best. Now, my first thought was, ¿qué son estas Sorting Hat mamadas? But after going one-on-one with the assessment and getting the results, my psychometric brain was like... oh shit! Feels like something off of the jujutsu kaisen world.
Observe my formidable quintet along with a screenshot of the full findings.
1. Learner
2. Empathy
3. Intellection
4. Individualization
5. Connectedness
Nombre… la mera neta, I feel like I just discovered glasses with convex lenses for hyperopia.
In a technological contemporary society, screens tell you what your strengths should be. Not the other way around. Ponder that and never ever doubt yourself again.
Desde Morro
If you were to visit my childhood home today, you'd find along the living room window a stack of my mom's collection of interior design magazines like Architectural Digest, House & Garden, Dallas Style & Design, and many more. When I was a kid in the 2000s, I remember seeing my mom in our lemon yellow-kitchen in the evenings looking through those magazines, collecting and placing Home Deport color cards next to each other, and asking my sisters and me, "¿Cuáles colores se miran mejor juntos?"
As my mom built the aesthetic nature of our house and developed an obsession with interior design, I realize now I was learning what process looked like.
The collection
The resourcefulness
The playfulness
The family influence
The patience
The execution
Growing up, I knew I always wanted to represent my family in this form of ambitious learning.
Asa youngsta' from the ages of 12-16 this meant:
Learning music
Studying DJs like N-Verse, Ralphy Ralph, Moreno, & Panik
Software like FL Studio & Sony Acid Pro
Learning dance
Breakin' 2, Tutting, B-Boying, Choreo Cookies & Mr. Wiggles
For what purpose?
To understand my taste.
Because that's how you unconsciously learn to eventually invent something new away from that learning environment. Do you see the cycle?
Anyway,
Each day only gets more cutting-edge for you,
E.T
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